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Robots and Robotics - Coggle Diagram
Robots and Robotics
How robots are used?
Agriculture
Drones
Autonomous equipment
Fastest growing area
Manufacturing
Soldering electrical components
Accuracy is really important
Distribution
Pick good that are to be sent to customers
Drones are used to deliver goods
Recovery
Have sensors to help assess dangers and to detect people that are in problems
Equipped with mechancial tools
Medicine
To help patients recover
Robotic surgical instruments
It can create a detailed 3d image of internal organs
Advantages of robots
Work with hazardous materials
Work in restricted spaces where humans cannot reach
Work quickly
Work in dangerous enviroments that would be risky for humans
Don't make mistakes
Technology of robots
Artificial intelligence
The use of computers to simulate inteelligent behavior
Sensors
Proximity sensors
Detect the position of a nearby object
Bumper switches
Tell a robot that it has hit something
Pressure pads
Used to control the robot hands and to stop them from crushing objects
Development in recent years
Vision Guided robotics
Voice recognition and natural language processing
Microprocessor developments
Has allowed poweful processors to be embedded into robots
Real time operating systems
Have been developed to allow robots work in the real world
Whats a robot
A machine that is designed and programmed to carry out tasks at speed and with great accuracy.
Robotics is
Science and technology of robots